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Main Purpose and Function

Reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis, Parks & Recreation, the Financial Analyst 2 is responsible for financial planning and analysis for the City of Vancouver. The Financial Analyst 2 is responsible for leading specific FP&A functions including short-mid term planning, budgeting, forecasting, business case development, financial modelling and decision support for processes and initiatives. Working closely with other members of the Citywide and Business Unit (BU) FP&A, the main functions of the role include leading respective business area, support the development of the City’s annual budget and multiyear plan process, support monthly and quarterly financial reporting process, and analyzing key business issues impacting the revenue opportunities within a business unit.

The position ensures compliance with internal controls, policies, standards and business processes and systems. The position provides financial decision support to enable the City to meet its strategic objectives and goals and leads the development of policies and processes to support the effective financial management of departmental resources.

The position makes recommendations on transformational initiatives, including recommendations that could impact staffing levels in the organization and realization of cost efficiencies

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Analysis:

• Defines and uses logical and innovative approaches to evaluate and deconstruct accounting and business situations. Compiles and links analytical information, experience and insights using quantitative and qualitative reasoning skills.
• Demonstrates understanding and application of common quantitative techniques by preparing appropriate financial analysis with fact-based assumptions to enable decision making.
• Provides input into the formation of problem-solving approaches for business situations.
• Accurately analyzes a situation based on available data or information.
• Leads the problem-solving process by identifying alternatives and making recommendations.
• Consistently applies working knowledge of the organization's information systems & appropriate financial tools and systems to find, extract, and analyze data and to produce reports.
• Applies basic modelling, forecasting and planning techniques to develop forecasts with cost drivers identified and explained.
• Supports management in developing and analyzing business cases, determining the financial implications for all major decisions, ensuring value for money, return on investment, productivity and service delivery analysis, quantifying impacts on budgets and forecasts
• Prepares materials to be presented to the Senior Leadership Teams, Directors, CFO, and other stakeholders as required.

Strategic Business Partnership and Decision support

• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of the organization's business plan, immediate environment and the possible impact of events and activities on the organization; understand current role in relation to executing the business plan.
• Applies common business principles to critically evaluate and accurately perform analysis.
• Uses insights to influence the views of managers and provides guidance and support, supported by facts, to influence and lead business decisions.
• Ability to apply decision criteria to business propositions prepared by business units.
• Lead in explaining financial concepts and analysis in non-financial terms to counterparts.
• Identify and address additional business partner needs as they arise.
• Makes recommendations on transformational initiatives, including recommendations that could impact staffing levels in the organization and realization of cost efficiencies.

Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and Performance Measurement:

• Leads, manages, and coordinates all aspects of operating and capital budget process within the Park Board; works with subject matter experts to provide inputs and assumptions and manages and monitors Operating & Capital budget expenditures, revenues and recoveries.
• Manages and prepares monthly, quarterly, and year-end variances analysis, forecasting and reporting; presents and reviews results with general manager and department leads; works to identify significant risks, and recommends mitigation strategies and raises to appropriate stakeholders.
• Provides financial and budget management to support major project leads.
• Manages and supports the development of multiyear financial and business plans and forecasts, review and validate financial assumptions and models, and identify trends that impact the Department’s ability to meet budget and service delivery targets.
• Leads and manages analysis of budgets, performance indicators, business plans and ongoing financial results to enable strategic recommendations on corrective actions.
• Interpret and provide forecasts and analysis that link to business unit strategy and operational performance.
• Complies with and administers Finance controls, policies and procedures.

Project Management and Process improvement:

• Supports and manages planning process timelines and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and standardization for business area.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for process automation/streamlining and support integration with financial reporting, capital budgeting, and long-term financial planning initiatives.
• Communicate budgeting policies and processes to Department FP&A and City staff; support planning processes improvement initiatives throughout the organization.
• Manage FP&A projects and sub-processes .

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Finance, or related discipline
• Professional Accounting Designation or MBA with a combination of experience and education related to the requirements of the position
• Extensive experiance post designation experience in budgeting, financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and accounting
• Advanced financial systems experience preferably within an ERP environment - experience with financial modules of SAP would be an asset
• Strong business case analysis experience
• Good working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles as they relate to local government including PSAB
• Advanced financial modelling and Excel skills
• Advanced experience with preparing complex presentations and writing formal reports for senior management and Council
• Considerable experience in presenting to Senior Leaders and department stakeholders
• Advanced project management experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong business acumen and capability to link finance to the business
• Superior critical thinking skills, ability to analyze complex situations and determine appropriate course of action where there is little or no established precedents
• Ability to strategically answer complex business problems through data analysis, modelling and creative thinking
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate complex financial concepts in simple terms
• Proven ability to work strategically with the business, build relationships, and be a trusted business partner
• Must be able to work independently and as a member of a Finance and Business Unit team
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities
• Must be able to take accountability to complete assignments and take ownership of challenges to the point of recommendation, resolution, approval and implementation
• Ability to maintain professionalism, objectivity, confidentiality, tact and diplomacy

Where operationally appropriate and subject to change, the City of Vancouver has a Flexible Work Program. This program allows staff to work a hybrid work week from locations that are a daily commutable distance from their work at a City worksite.  At this time this position is eligible to be part of the Flexible Work Program.

Business Unit/Department: Finance & Supply Chain Mgmt (1150) 

Affiliation: Exempt 

Employment Type: Regular Full Time 

Position Start Date: June 2025

Salary Information: Pay Grade RNG-091: $111139 to $138924 per annum

Application Close: April 20, 2025

Main Purpose and Function

The Citylearn Learning Specialist enables and supports the learning and development of employees at the City of Vancouver.  The position reinforces the important aspects of attraction, engagement and retention within the employee life cycle.  With oversight for the CityLearn Centre’s operation, the position explores, recommends, implements and administers learning opportunities in alignment with the City’s corporate values, policies and competencies.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversees the operationalization of the learning and development curriculum for the City of Vancouver and assists with oversight of the CityLearn Centre, including developing and scheduling the yearly CityLearn training calendar
• Initiates, develops and implements developmental strategies relevant to corporate objectives
• Designs, develops and facilitates a wide variety of workshops including but not limited to New Employee Orientation, Supervisory Skills, Building Resilience, and Insights Discovery as well as the Lunch with Leaders series
• Works closely with the City’s departments on the creation of computer-based training works with organization on development of prioritized training, also provides guidance on best practices, reviews for quality control, manages access to online training tools, and ensures that training is uploaded to SuccessFactors (SF) Learning Management System (LMS)
• Provides subject matter expertise, guidance and support to HR functional groups and departments across the City with regards to learning and development
• Analyzes staff and organizational issues and requests and plans appropriate interventions
• Provides training and direction for and coaches CityLearn’s Training Coordinator
• Partners with the City’s Organization Development (OD) Team to inform and align leadership development offerings available through both CityLearn and the OD Team, in alignment with the City’s Leadership Competency Framework 
• Upholds the City’s commitment to a fair, psychologically safe and inclusive workplace, by seeing that an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lens is incorporated into all CityLearn offerings
• Considers and integrates applicable solutions to facilitate the accessibility of City learning and development offerings for all employees
• Works closely with the Corporate Communications team to provide marketing materials for the promotion of learning and development opportunities for best return on training budget investment
• Works closely with the LMS Administrator regarding systems support for all CityLearn courses; maintains learning and development content on the City’s intranet and within the City’s learning management system
• Leads procurement processes to engage 3rd party providers and works closely with the providers to develop new courses and learning and development resources
• Builds strong working relationships and networks with external learning and development providers and fosters relationships and maintains networks with other organizations to leverage best practices
• Actively monitors and reviews courses for participant feedback; regularly shares this feedback with instructors to inform adjustments and revisions to course content and/or delivery as required
• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Adult Education or completion of a recognized HR Management Certificate program, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the learning and development realm, preferably within municipal government or other complex organizations. Or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.

Considered an asset:

• Experience as an Insights-accredited facilitator

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Considerable knowledge of creating, developing, and implementing computer-based training
• Considerable knowledge of developing and delivering classroom and virtual training
• Working knowledge of adult education principles.
• Strong training and facilitation skills
• Ability to engage, motivate and build trust amongst diverse audiences and in different work environments
• Ability to establish and maintain positive relationships with internal and external partners/clients
• Independent and self-motivated, detail oriented with the ability to function effectively within a team environment as well as independently and collaboratively within a rapidly changing public sector organization
• Ability to research, analyze, provide recommendations, solve problems based on the analysis of facts
• Ability to be sensitive and responsive to individual, group and organizational needs and issues
• Strong verbal and written communication skills including effective analytical, writing and public speaking skills
• Awareness/understanding of working with a training budget
• Ability to act with diplomacy and tact
• Skills and ability working with MS Office and learning management systems.
• Comfortable learning and working with recent technologies
• Working knowledge of municipal government an asset

Business Unit/Department: Human Resources (1020) 

Affiliation: Exempt 

Employment Type: Regular Full Time 

Position Start Date: May, 2025 

Salary Information: Pay Grade RNG-080: $97,032 to $121,294 per year

Application Close: April 16, 2025

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